Re: New Zogby Poll by the Discovery Institute


"NashtOn" <nana@xxxxx> wrote in message
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catshark wrote:
WingnutDaily report on it:

<http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49153>

Zogby report (pdf file):

<http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=719>

Bottom line:

5. Which of the following two statements come closest to your own
opinion?

Table 1. %
Statement B: Biology teachers should teach Darwin's theory
of evolution, but also the scientific evidence against it. 69

Statement A: Biology teachers should teach only Darwin's
theory of evolution and the scientific evidence that supports it. 21

Neither/Not Sure 10

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6. Do you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly
disagree with the following statement: "When Darwin's theory of evolution
is taught in school, students should also be able to learn about
scientific
evidence that points to an intelligent design of life."

Strongly agree 51%
Somewhat agree 26 Agree 77%
Somewhat disagree 6
Strongly disagree 13 Disagree 19
Not sure 4

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Typical Discovery Institute PR manipulation: If you are asked if
scientific
evidence should be taught in science classes, what is any reasonable
person
going to say? And the same for scientific evidence for a designer.

The problem is that they couldn't find enough of that supposed
"scientific
evidence" to even get a conservative Republican judge to say it was close
enough to science to give it the benefit of the doubt.

How about a fair question?:

Do you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly
disagree with the following statement: "When the theory of evolution is
taught in school, teachers should be able to proselytize your children to
join their religion."

Wanna bet what the percentages would change?

Or:

Do you strongly agree,somewhat agree somewhat disagree or strongly
disagree:

"The ToE should be taught while taking into consideration all the
blunders, hoaxes, frauds and with the central notion that it is just a
tentative theory and by no means the only explanation of biological
diversity?"

Or:

"If you knew that the ToE has been fixed, revised and molded into a
postulate that takes into account the flagrant lack of physical
evidence, observational data and if you knew that academia stifles
anything that resembles dissent from the well accepted ToE, would you
agree that it be taught as the Holy truth (TM) to your children?"



Since these are both incredibly inaccurate and loaded statements, why would
anyone even bother to attempt to answer them? And what flagrant lack of
physical evidence are you talking about? That wouldn't be the tons of
evidence that is posted everytime you ask this question would it? You know,
that evidence you refuse to acknowledge and constantly ignore.





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